Author Topic: Have Alt.Binz use backup server if low speed from primary.  (Read 3303 times)

Offline MultiForce

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Have Alt.Binz use backup server if low speed from primary.
« on: February 17, 2011, 08:53:03 pm »
Maybe nothing the majority wants but I want it anyway  ;)

I got 2 providers but I also want to use it when I have EU/US servers to choose from.

Offline davidq666

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Re: Have Alt.Binz use backup server if low speed from primary.
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2011, 08:49:53 am »
i personaly like the idea, but there would have to be a way to determine when to switch and when to switch back which could be tricky. i image it would basicly need three things:

1. a time interval for testing the speed on the other one maybe somewhere arround 4-5 min (constant testing would mean constant switching which would lower the speed all by it self)

2. a timeperiod for speedtesting to get an acurate average speed (maybe 15 seconds?)

3. a threshold for switching from primary to secondary and vice versa (maybe 10-20% or 100 to 200 KB/S above curent average speed)

Offline Slinky

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Re: Have Alt.Binz use backup server if low speed from primary.
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2011, 03:01:45 pm »
Interesting idea, especially with all the talk here regarding ISP's throttling traffic bsaed on packet inspection on certain ports, it could be handy to switch automatically to a different port, or to SSL

Offline tsdarkness

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Re: Have Alt.Binz use backup server if low speed from primary.
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2011, 11:24:22 am »
Excellent idea
My Usenet provider works sometimes at full speed with 7 connections
but after a few hours it's drop dawn at half speed, so that i must douple the connection and add 5-7 connection over the 7 connection which work good for a few hours.
so the connection will be ( 7 + 7 =14 )
so that idea is Excellent for me.

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Re: Have Alt.Binz use backup server if low speed from primary.
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2011, 04:54:29 am »
sounds like a great idea to me  8)

Offline Spits123

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Re: Have Alt.Binz use backup server if low speed from primary.
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2011, 09:47:11 pm »
+1 Currently need this because of my USP moving some of his servers to the USA, giving me slow speeds...